Matt Greiner, drummer of August Burns Red, has released some products for sale.
Matt Greiner Selling Collectibles
The Maine Talk With Substream
The Maine recently sat down with Substream Magazine to talk about their plans for the next year:
As for what the future does hold for The Maine, they have already started working on their next album. Though, as Brock explains, this is something that they have been doing since Lovely Little Lonely first came out. “The second the last [record] comes out, we start working on the next one,” he begins, “the goal is just to keep on pushing. We’re constantly working on music. We have a studio back at home that we’ve rented out for a whole year, and we’ve already been in there for a couple months. It’s not necessarily about just recording stuff in there at the moment, but it’s about exploring, writing, and just feeling open and free again to make music.
Gibson Files For Bankruptcy
Gibson guitars have filed for bankruptcy. NPR reports:
The petition, filed on Tuesday, notes that the company currently has up to $500 million in debt and will focus its operations on its musical instruments business, “unburdened by the challenges experienced by [the company’s] separate, primarily non-U.S., consumer electronics business.” That business includes the brands KRK, Cerwin Vega and Stanton, whose lines include studio monitors, headphones and turntables.
J. Cole Tops the Charts
J. Cole has the number one album this week:
KOD opened with 397,000 total copies, including 174,000 traditional albums and 215,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs). Only Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods sold more debut week traditional copies than KOD this year, but KOD’s first-week streaming totals, the third-best ever since the Billboard 200 began measuring streams, pushed the album to 2018’s best sales week, Billboard reports.
Mark Kozelek Streams New Album
Mark Kozelek is streaming his new album on his website and it comes alongside a new interview with Phoebe Bridgers:
For this record I booked myself into hotel rooms and brought an engineer and a mic and a few guitars and we started recording. A lot of it started with looping guitar parts and layering. Some lyrics were written and recorded during those hotel sessions, inspired by things going on in the moment and some were written later. The main thing for me is to not have anything pre-written and just show up.
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Opens Big
Audiences assembled worldwide as Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War broke both the domestic opening weekend box office record and worldwide opening record with a massive $250 million domestically and $630 million worldwide.
Disney’s just printing money at this point.
Social Distortion’s ‘Live at the Roxy’ Gets a New Pressing
A new pressing of Social Distortion’s Live at the Roxy is up for pre-order on vinyl.
Bob Dylan Launching New Whiskey
Bob Dylan has launched a new line of whiskey called “Heaven’s Door.” He sat down to talk with The New York Times about the project:
“We both wanted to create a collection of American whiskeys that, in their own way, tell a story,” Mr. Dylan said in a statement to The New York Times. “I’ve been traveling for decades, and I’ve been able to try some of the best spirits that the world of whiskey has to offer. This is great whiskey.”
The Simpsons Become Longest Running Scripted TV Show
Michael Cavna, writing at The Washington Post:
With that in mind, it only seems fitting that “The Simpsons” draws upon both principles to dramatize its act of taking down “Gunsmoke” as the new sheriff of television. On Sunday night, “The Simpsons” will pass the classic midcentury western by airing show No. 636 — the most scripted episodes broadcast by any prime-time series in TV history.
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Anti-Flag Bring ‘Their System Doesn’t Work For You’ to Vinyl
Anti-Flag’s Their System Doesn’t Work For You is coming to vinyl.
Track-by-Track With Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights did a track-by-track breakdown of their new album over at Alternative Press:
Why do people focus on the two bad times they had out of a hundred good times? I don’t know if it’s just within our nature as human beings. It’s just like all this static comes in, and no matter how beautiful the radio sounds, you always focus on that one little tiny bit of static. You let the bad frequencies creep into your life when really you should just be focusing how good and golden everything is.
Sony Pictures Makes Deal With Halsey for Movie Inspired by Singer’s Life
Mike Fleming Jr., writing at Deadline:
Sony Pictures has closed a life rights deal with singer/songwriter Halsey. The hope is to develop a movie loosely based on her life, which she would star in. I’m told the closest cousin to what they hope for here is a vehicle that does for her what 8 Mile did for Eminem.
Dave Matthews Band Announce New Album
The Dave Matthews Band will release their new album, Come Tomorrow, on June 8th. Pre-orders are now up.
Apple Pays 7-Figures for Ed Sheeran Documentary ‘Songwriter’
Apple just won an auction for world screen rights to Songwriter, the Murray Cummings-directed documentary that shows singer Ed Sheeran as he finds the handle on writing and performing his distinctive songs. Deal is low to mid-seven figures for world rights, and Apple will make it an event release that includes a theatrical component along with release on Apple’s multiple platforms.